单词 | unseasonable |
释义 | unseasonableadj. 1. a. Not suited to, not in accordance with, the time or occasion; untimely, inopportune. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective] untimec1000 untidya1225 untimesa1300 out of season1377 undue1398 out of time1483 untimeousa1500 importunate1529 inopportune1533 importunea1535 unconvenable1542 intempestive1548 unseasonable1561 untimeable1570 out-of-season1574 untimely1581 unseasoned1589 baldc1590 timeless1590 melancounterous?1602 untimelessa1607 unopportune1653 mistimelyc1680 mistimed1687 ill-timed1692 ill-seasoned1843 unchancy1860 intempestuous1885 unseasonal1935 1561 X Commaundementes of Loue in Chaucer's Wks. f. cccxlijv/1 Take measure in langage..For measure..Thynges vnseasonable setteth in season. 1591 in Acts Privy Council (1900) XXI. 123 The unordinate and unseasonable taking of the same [spawn] by the common fishers. 1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 74 To chuse time is to save time, and an vnseasonable motion is but beating the aire. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 201 Whence haply mention may arise Of somthing not unseasonable to ask. View more context for this quotation 1718 Free-thinker No. 7. 1 A Notion prevails..that Marriage in Lent is unseasonable. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 207. ⁋9 Unseasonable importunity of discontent. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. v. 522 The English fleet,..dispersed by the weather, incurred considerable danger of a very unseasonable rencounter. 1839 W. C. Taylor Student's Man. Anc. Hist. (ed. 2) xvii. §2. 501 This rash conspiracy induced Galba to sully the commencement of his reign by unseasonable severities. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. xi. 497 The omission to inspect the accounts was unseasonable and injudicious. b. Of time: Not suitable for the action specified or implied.Frequently (with hour) implying an unusual time of the night. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective] > of time unseasonablea1616 untimeous1728 untimely1827 a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 20 This acte..Being vrged at a time vnseasonable . View more context for this quotation 1621 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 261 The said ship..at last at unseasonable time made tryall to com for Petapolie. 1674 R. Head Jackson's Recantation sig. B1 To let them out at unseasonable hours, and stay up for them, till it be early. 1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. iii. 73 Who knows but God may bless Instruction, tho' begun at an unseasonable time. 1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 100 Neither did they conceive the Time to be unseasonable for an Application to the Crown. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family II. 176 If I presume to intrude upon you at an unseasonable hour. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Leila i. vi. 46 The alarm it might occasion..if he endeavoured, at so unseasonable an hour, to force an entrance. c. As adv. Unseasonably; out of season. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb] in (earlier on) untimec897 untimelyc1200 out of timea1325 in unseasona1400 importunelyc1425 in an evil (also ill, etc.) hour1490 importunatelya1492 at ungaina1500 untimeously1513 intempestively1548 out of season1548 timeless1586 unseasonably1586 inopportunely1609 unseasonablea1634 unopportunely1651 timelessly1673 unseasonally1941 a1634 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois (1641) iii. 42 How most unseasonable thou playest the Cucko, In this thy fall of friendship. 1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xii. 174 This came very Unseasonable; Or if there had been any Errour, it might have been dissembled. 2. a. Of fish, etc.: Not in season. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [adjective] > not in season unseasonablec1450 c1450 Cal. Letter-bks. London, D. (1902) IV. 198 Ye shalle not suffre no fysshe corrupt ne unsesynable to be solde. 1472 Presentmts. of Juries in Surtees Misc. (1890) 23 We say yt yer have boght of late..unsesanabyll wetyl, yt is to say, feche & herrynge, bothe Thom Smythe & John Clyffe. 1488–9 Act 4 Hen. VII c. 21 Aswell grete fisshes unsesonable as the seid frie. 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 7 Kyllyng of salmons when they be unsesonable and not holsome for manns body. 1563 in W. K. Clay Liturg. Services Q. Eliz. (1847) 488 The same poor which either lack food, or else that which they have is unseasonable and cause of sickness. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler vi. 133 The old Salmon..grow sick in fresh waters, and by degrees unseasonable . View more context for this quotation 1677 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1889) VII. 6 A Startforth yeoman for catching ten unseasonable fish called scurfes. 1842 Act 5 & 6 Victoria c. 106 §74 If any Person shall..have in his Possession any..unclean or unseasonable Salmon or Trout. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature green?a1300 rawa1398 indigest1398 unmatured?a1425 unripea1500 unseasonable1515 unbuilded1519 inchoate1534 unripened1561 uncivil1572 unmellowed1573 unmanured1577 unblown1587 ungrown1593 unpolished1594 rudimental1597 rude1600 unsalted1602 unseasoned1602 unlicked1612 embryon1613 unbakeda1616 unbloweda1616 unfledged1615 unmellow1615 sappya1627 embryous1628 unconcocteda1631 unkneaded1633 immature1635 sucking1648 vacuous1651 embryo1659 unelaborate1663 unmature1673 unformed1689 undeveloped1736 infantile1772 uncultivated1796 unelaborated1817 fetal1820 embryotic1823 embryonic1825 embryonary1833 sophomoric1837 seedling1843 rudimentary1851 unwrought1869 juvenescent1875 vealy1890 under-developed1892 1515 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 344 We present Ser John Bagula for makyng on seysnabulle tyle. 1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 10 §1 Sondrie persons..made myche Malte unpure and unseasonable. 3. Of weather: Not appropriate to the season of the year; esp. stormy, tempestuous. Also of days, seasons, etc., marked by such weather. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adjective] > unseasonable unseasonablea1513 ill-seasoned1635 unseasonal1937 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxxxiv Great scarcete of Corne and Frute in Fraunce by meane of vnsesonable Wederynge. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 102 An vnseasonable stormie day. View more context for this quotation 1602 in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. 261 Their Haruest was so vnseasonable, and their Corne was so destroied by the weather, as numbers of subiects will vndoubtedly die of famine. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 466 By reason of vnseasonable weather the corne..was choked and blasted in the eare. a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) xxi. 166 The ripeness of the fruits..is greatly retarded by the abundance of unseasonable rain. 1696 Mrs. Ray in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) (Camden) 203 Heer hath been a very unseasonable Summer, for the most part very cold and wet. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 212 A cold, dry, unseasonable Spring. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. iv. 84 The unseasonable seasons drove With alternating shafts of frost and fire, Their..pale tribes to mountain caves. 1854 Poultry Chron. 1 578/1 Notwithstanding the cold, dark, unseasonable day. 1879 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine xx. 442 Plucking lilies of the field from beneath the unseasonable snow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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